Re: IDE for Pascal-family language

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 23:12:03 -0500, Mike Sieweke wrote:

> In article <pan.2007.12.20.11.44.29.212038@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  David Mitchell <david@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> I found a couple of useful looking ones with Google; but they were all
>> fairly large, and I only have dial-up.
>> 
>> That said, you should be able to repeat the experience.  I think that
one
>> was KDEDevelop.
>> 
>> > I tried a simple test case and didn't get useful
>> > debugging info.  I'm typing this from memory - sorry if
>> > this doesn't compile.  FPC gives mysterious messages
>> > about "runtime error 216 at address $0040104a" and the
>> > editor doesn't jump to line 11 where the error was.
>> 
>> I think you probably need to enable debug output - either in
>> Options/Compiler/Options, or, in the fpc config file.
> 
> I checked all the boxes in the debug section of the IDE, but
> that didn't help.

It's usually better to put whatever configuration you want in the .cfg
file.  In this case I usually use "-ghl", the -gl part requests the output
of line information.

> I'll give KDEDevelop a look.  Do you have experience with it?

I'm afraid not, I got RHIDE working and didn't bother with it.

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